Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of CultureThis complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay, and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's reception in Africa as compared with that in Europe and the Americas". |
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Page 67
... telling for being rooted in a common Scripture . There was authority in it for recognizing the likes of the Moor as infidel and for imputing a crucial degeneracy to the Jew , as is well illustrated in the encyclopaedic antagonism with ...
... telling for being rooted in a common Scripture . There was authority in it for recognizing the likes of the Moor as infidel and for imputing a crucial degeneracy to the Jew , as is well illustrated in the encyclopaedic antagonism with ...
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... telling moment when Desdemona herself had embraced attraction and recognized difference , before Othello turned " hint " to advantage : " She thanked me , / And bade me , if I had a friend that loved her , / I should but teach him how ...
... telling moment when Desdemona herself had embraced attraction and recognized difference , before Othello turned " hint " to advantage : " She thanked me , / And bade me , if I had a friend that loved her , / I should but teach him how ...
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... telling knot of dis / affiliations in the pre- text with which El otoƱo del patriarca ( 1975 ) celebrates its annunication of " the living creature of a mortal sin ... in our obscene bellies [ who ] would be named Emmanuel which is the ...
... telling knot of dis / affiliations in the pre- text with which El otoƱo del patriarca ( 1975 ) celebrates its annunication of " the living creature of a mortal sin ... in our obscene bellies [ who ] would be named Emmanuel which is the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
womanchild in the compromised land | 17 |
The Lands of America and | 183 |
Copyright | |
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Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of Culture Lemuel A. Johnson No preview available - 1998 |
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